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From: stimac@tymix.UUCP (Michael Stimac)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Rogue 5.3 saves itself - maintainers please note and reply
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Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 12:57:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 13 12:57:21 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Apr-84 01:43:46 EST
Organization: Tymshare Inc., Cupertino CA
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Playing Rogue 5.3 yesterday, I found a recurrence of the situation
where Rogue takes it upon itself to save the game for me. 

My keystrokes (l,l,l,l) were echoed back on the screen at me; (I
paused); the screen scrolled up one line, and a moment later I got
my shell prompt. The file rogue.save now existed; it hadn't before.

At this point, the game saved will re-exhibit this behavior when
it is restarted; the game is thus pratically unplayable, as it
will simply make one move and save itself over and over again.

This has happened to several people at our site, after saving a
game. This time, it happened while I was playing a game that had
NEVER been saved; I was just playing normally and BANG! Weird state.

I offer this to those who are in a position to investigate this
problem so that they will know that this state can arise WITHOUT
a prior save command.

For what its worth, about 50-100 turns before this incident, half of
my pack inventory vanished for no apparent reason - all magic items
were gone (I had had about 7 or 8 potions, rings, and staves). I
was left only with weapons, armor, and food.

Michael Stimac		...hplabs!oliveb!tymix!stimac
Tymshare, Inc.
Cupertino, CA